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  • Tags: Davenport (Iowa)

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Cook's Point, Davenport, 1945. Left to right: Tillie Gomez, Florence Gomez, their mother Luz Gomez; Joe Gomez in the background climbing the fence post.

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Photograph of Florence Gomez, Cook's Point, ca. 1945. Florence Gomez later married John Terronez, the son of Mary Ramirez and Felipe Bravo Terronez.

Type: Photograph

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Topping onions in Pleasant Valley, Iowa; newspaper article by Linda Barr, Quad City Times, 1980s

Davenport Mexican Americans protest discriminatory hiring practices.
Dolores Carillo Garcia interviewed by Iowa City feminists about her decision to picket the Oscar Mayer plant in August 1970.

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Article "Ain't I a Woman?" was written in August 1970 by Iowa City feminists about Mexican American women picketing the Oscar Mayer plant in Davenport, Iowa, to protest discriminatory hiring practices.

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1995 obituary of Manuela Mendez Garcia

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Flier for the 420th anniversary of the "Apparition of The Virgin of Guadalupe" put on by La Organizacion Guadalupena, Davenport, Iowa, 1926.

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Letter mailed from attorney of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gomez to the Uchtorff Company in 1950, Davenport Iowa.

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Photograph of Salvador Lopez, son of Antonia and Federico Lopez, in Davenport Iowa, circa 2007.
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